This Week in Unscripted TV…

10/7/26

Headlines 🗞️

• Banijay Entertainment and All3Media merger closes, Louise Pederson departs All3Media International CEO role 🔗

• ITV agrees sale of media and entertainment business to Sky for £1.6bn 🔗

Commissions 💵

• Channel 4 commissions Taskmaster spin-off “Your Time Starts Now” (Avalon) 🔗

• “Cruising Paradise: Above and Below Deck” for E4 from Crackit TV 🔗

• Hayu commissions Canadian version of “Summer House” (Lark Productions) 🔗

• Channel 4.0 commissions “The Chosen One” from Cowshed Collective and “Are They a Keeper?” from After Party Studios 🔗

• “The Joy of Pets” for ITV from Bandicoot Scotland 🔗

• France Télévisions commissions “The Winner Takes it All” from Talpa Studios 🔗

• “Come Dine with Me” goes to the Phillipines (ITV Studios) 🔗

• “The Search for Leah Croucher: A Parent’s Nightmare” for UKTV from Impossible Factual 🔗

• Globo commissions “Upside Down” from Endemol Shine Brasil 🔗

• OWN network to launch “Glow Up in 5” and “Dating Download” from Content 23 🔗

• PBS unveils “The Drawing Room with Mo Welch” for YouTube (Second Peninsula) 🔗

Deals 🤝

• Netflix and Penske Media partner to bring BuzzFeed, Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines and more to Netflix viewers 🔗

Formats 📄

• Mediawan developing multiple versions of Kinetic Content’s “Trojan Horse” 🔗

Moves 🧳

• Zoo 55 appoints Diane Glynn as SVP Social Video 🔗

• Alisa Bowen named CEO at Fubo 🔗

Coming soon 📺

• “Let’s Marry Harry” for Netflix from Unwell

• “Temptations Under The Sun: Cyprus” for Crave from Productions J

• “Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy” for Netflix from Mindhouse

• “Hunting the Spycammers” for BBC4 from Rock Paper Productions

• “Age Inappropriate” for WEtv from Range Studios

Thank you so much for reading! See you next week!